I used Linux for mixed workloads (as in, my desktop that was being used for dev work was also running multi-core molecular dynamics jobs in the background). No

I used Linux for mixed workloads (as in, my desktop that was being used for dev work was also running multi-core molecular dynamics jobs in the background). Not sure I agree completely that the Google linux kernel is significantly better at this. At work at my new job we run mixed workloads in k8s and I don't really see a problem, but we also don't instrument well enough that I could say for sure. In our case it usually just makes sense to not oversubscribe machines (Google oversubscribed and then paid a cost due to preemptions and random job failures that got masked over by retries) by getting more machines.